Often Overlooked......Plectrums....

vantasic · 15-01-2009 11:57PM #1

i use a paul gilbert signature one, i love the sharp but not too sharp point on it, i used to use the white one originally released and now i found the black one,lovely. not mad about the totrex ones, i like the shiny plasticy 500 tortex type ones though. i used to love stagg heavy ones too, dunno where to get em any more though.

Ravelleman · 16-01-2009 12:00AM

The Dunlop Jazz 3 for me. In red. Red makes you play better.

BuddhaJoe · 16-01-2009 12:01AM

Bought 24 of em off Ebay for 8 quid and its all I use now.

Edit: Snap!

Voodu Child · 16-01-2009 12:02AM

Dunlop Jazz III Gold (Ultex) are my faves.

-=al=- · 16-01-2009 12:02AM

pg threw his pick at me and it landed on my chest, fun times

cant use any other ones than JD nylon ones

brendansmith · 16-01-2009 12:03AM

Ravelleman wrote: »

The Dunlop Jazz 3 for me. In red. Red makes you play better.

Damn straight, the smaller the better, the pointier the better, the thicker the better.

Thats a mans pleck!

NoQuarter · 16-01-2009 12:16AM

Herdim picks, wouldnt use anything else, came across them by chance like 6 years ago and never looked back! plus they are perfect for tapping if you dont use your fingers!

Also ive just found out while looking for that picture that apparently these plecks are the ones the edge uses to get that chimey sound! so of course i picked up the strat and had a go at "where the streets have no name", it does sound better so ill have to try it full blast tomorrow!!

:D

brendansmith · 16-01-2009 12:18AM

king-stew wrote: »

Herdim picks, wouldnt use anything else, came across them by chance like 6 years ago and never looked back! plus they are perfect for tapping if you dont use your fingers!

Also ive just found out while looking for that picture that apparently these plecks are the ones the edge uses to get that chimey sound! so of course i picked up the strat and had a go at "where the streets have no name", it does sound better so ill have to try it full blast tomorrow!! :D

They are good picks alright,

Do you use the tangy cheese flavour or the cool original flavour? weh weh weh:pac::D

Patricide · 16-01-2009 01:23AM

Jazz 3, those herdim ones for acoustic. And a freind of mine showed me these new pics i cant think of the name but they have a kind of gouge cut out of em i thought they were pretty bitchin.

NoQuarter · 16-01-2009 01:27AM

brendansmith wrote: »

They are good picks alright,

Do you use the tangy cheese flavour or the cool original flavour? weh weh weh:pac::D

I use the red for smokin solos, the yellow for chords and indie, and the blue for........well......BLUES silly!!!!! :eek::D:pac:

John · 16-01-2009 02:04AM

I only use the standard Dunlop Nylon 0.73 plecks. Never liked any other I've tried, either too easy to break or too unyielding. I've also been known to use my fingers, Ebow and violin bow.

brendansmith · 16-01-2009 02:16AM

John wrote: »

I've also been known to use my fingers, Ebow and violin bow.

good man

Dord · 16-01-2009 10:04AM

I use Dava picks. More specifically their "Rock Control Pick", it's a nice grippy pick with a delrin insert.

Also, I've been known to use Dunlop Jazz III's (red) sometimes.

Fingers Mcginty · 16-01-2009 10:30AM

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

Bought 24 of em off Ebay for 8 quid and its all I use now.

Edit: Snap!

Me too...great picks

Red Sleeping Beauty · 16-01-2009 11:06AM

I swear by these Pickboy Carbon Nylon plectrums.
They're the strongest plectrum I've ever had. Dunlop Jazz IIIs are the only ones I can play with other than these so they get a vote too...

But these are fantastic, I tried the "Edge" plectrums from Pickboy but they're too small for me.

NoQuarter · 16-01-2009 11:11AM

How the hell do ya break a plec!?!?!?!?

Seriously what do you fellas be doin!?

Sounds like the time i broke my fat E string! like how does that happen!??!:p

John · 16-01-2009 11:19AM

king-stew wrote: »

How the hell do ya break a plec!?!?!?!?

By allowing the awesome power of rock to control your picking hand.

Dord · 16-01-2009 11:59AM

king-stew wrote: »

How the hell do ya break a plec!?!?!?!?

Seriously what do you fellas be doin!?

Sounds like the time i broke my fat E string! like how does that happen!??!:p

I had a few Fender celluloid picks I got free before. Useless, they cracked and broke. :rolleyes:

I've broken a few 0.105 E strings on bass before. There was a burr on the saddle. Other than that I haven't broken any strings.

68 lost souls · 16-01-2009 01:00PM

I swear by these.

Dunlop 3mm Big Stubby

and I use Dunlop Nylon aswel.

Johnny Storm · 16-01-2009 02:24PM

I like the 2mm Stubby Triangles. Very grippy. Hard to go back to a flat plectrum after getting used to these.

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-=al=- · 16-01-2009 03:14PM

any other simple 1.0mm dunlop nylon users here? lots of fancy arse plectrums here

Sofaspud · 16-01-2009 03:31PM

.60 or .73 nylons for me. Usually out of a "match pik" book!

freshcream · 16-01-2009 03:58PM

-=al=- wrote: »

any other simple 1.0mm dunlop nylon users here? lots of fancy arse plectrums here

+1 :pac: or just my thumb, index and middle fingernails, when I have some.

fish-head · 16-01-2009 05:13PM

-=al=- wrote: »

any other simple 1.0mm dunlop nylon users here? lots of fancy arse plectrums here

Yep. That's the job for me. That and my fingers, for when I'm feeling a bit Chet Atkins.

Squirrel · 17-01-2009 09:30AM

I use a Wedgie Nylon XT .60 http://www.wedgie.com/

I have two of them floating about the place, one in the pocket of the jeans I'm wearing and one somewhere and I find it occassionally. I used to have more but lost most of them, and don't know where I got them to get more. Very rarely I'll use a Jim Dunlop .88 or .73

DAEDULUS · 17-01-2009 11:38AM

OK-Cancel-Apply · 17-01-2009 12:28PM

68 lost souls wrote: »

I swear by these.

Dunlop 3mm Big Stubby

and I use Dunlop Nylon aswel.

I tried those but I thought they lacked the 'bite' of my usual dunlop .60mm

500x · 17-01-2009 06:37PM

3MM Dunlop Stubby for me on electric, fingers on acoustic.

Went from a Nylon .73, to a Nylon .88, to a Nylon 1mm, to a Jazz III (red of course!), to the Stubby 3mm.

The stubbys are great when they're new, but the points wear very quickly on them.

Problem is, I find it very hard to use larger picks now. Using them takes my already crappy playing to a whole new depth...

Here's another thing:

I've lost thousands of picks at this stage, and they never show up. Where do they end up - pick Heaven.. or even pick Hell?

I'm for ever buying packs of them, and a month later... I'm out of picks.

If only I was losing them by tossing them out to adoring fans... My only fan is sitting here on my desk, keeping me cool.

NoQuarter · 17-01-2009 07:12PM

Good point! i dont recall EVER throwing a pick out yet im forever buying more! hmm.......pick heaven you say......

Dord · 17-01-2009 08:34PM

I've found a few in the washing machine before. One of them I hadn't seen in months. :eek:

John · 18-01-2009 12:18AM

Dord wrote: »

I've broken a few 0.105 E strings on bass before. There was a burr on the saddle. Other than that I haven't broken any strings.

I broke a D string on the bass before and was constantly breaking strings on my Epiphone Les Paul. Haven't had that problem with my Gretsch, must have been the Epiphone's fault!

Oh and I never lose plecs, I still have the same four I bought 6 years ago!

Often Overlooked......Plectrums....

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